☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure
Amazon Web Services Activate – Up to $100,000 in AWS credits for eligible startups.
Google Cloud for Startups – Up to $200,000 in cloud credits.
Microsoft – Up to $150,000 in Azure credits plus software perks.
100 Startup Discounts & Free Tools
☁️ Cloud
AWS Activate — Up to $100K in cloud credits
Google Cloud for Startups — Up to $200K in credits
Microsoft Azure for Startups — Up to $150K in credits
DigitalOcean Hatch — $10K+ in credits
🌐 Hosting & Deployment
Heroku — Limited free dyno hours
Render — Free tier for web services
Fly.io — Free compute allowance
Railway — $5 free usage per month
Netlify — Free forever plan
Vercel — Free Hobby plan
Cloudflare Pages — Free forever hosting
GitHub Pages — Free static site hosting
Supabase — Free tier with up to 2 projects
🗄️ Databases
PlanetScale — Free Hobby tier
MongoDB Atlas — 512 MB free cluster
Neon — Free serverless PostgreSQL
Upstash — 10K commands per day free
Turso — Generous free tier (usage-based)
🤖 AI & Machine Learning
OpenAI — Free trial API credits
Anthropic Claude — Free API trial
Groq — Generous free inference tier
Together AI — $25 in free credits
Hugging Face — Free Spaces and inference endpoints
Replicate — Free trial credits
Cohere — Free tier with API credits
Mistral AI — Free API tier
🛠️ AI Developer Tools
Lovable — Free tier
Bolt.new — Free daily token allowance
v0 by Vercel — Free tier for UI generation
Cursor — Free 2-week Pro trial
Windsurf — Free tier
GitHub Copilot — Free for students and open-source maintainers
🌍 Domains
Namecheap — Promotional ~$1 .com for the first year
Porkbun — Promotional ~$0.99 .com deals
Cloudflare Registrar — Domains at wholesale (at-cost) pricing
Squarespace Domains — First-year discounts
Freenom — Free .tk/.ml domains (best for testing)
🎨 Design & Assets
Figma — Free Starter plan
Canva — Free forever plan
Framer — Free site with subdomain
Tailwind UI — Selected free components (core library is paid)
shadcn/ui — Completely free and open source
Lucide Icons — Free open-source icon set
Heroicons — Free MIT-licensed icons
Unsplash — Free high-quality photos
Pexels — Free photos and videos
🔐 Authentication
Clerk — Free for up to 10K monthly active users
Auth0 — Free tier up to 7,500 MAU
Firebase Authentication — Generous free tier
NextAuth.js (Auth.js) — Free and open source
Lucia Auth — Free and open source
💳 Finance & Payments
Stripe — No monthly fee (standard transaction fees apply)
Stripe Atlas — Incorporation service with startup perks
Lemon Squeezy — No monthly fee, pay-as-you-go
Gumroad — Free to start, ~10% per sale
Mercury — Free business banking
Brex — Startup rewards and credits
Ramp — Free corporate card with cashback
Wave — Free accounting software
📧 Email & Communications
Resend — 3,000 emails/month free
SendGrid — 100 emails/day free
Mailgun — 5,000 emails/month free for the first 3 months
Postmark — 100 emails/month free
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) — 300 emails/day free
Twilio — ~$15 trial credit
Telnyx — ~$10 trial credit
Vonage — Trial credits for communications APIs
Knock — 10K notifications/month free
Novu — 30K events/month free
💬 Live Chat & Support
Crisp — Free forever plan (up to 2 agents)
Tawk.to — Completely free live chat
Intercom — Free for some early-stage startups (via programs)
📊 Analytics
PostHog — 1M events/month free
Mixpanel — 20M events/month free
Amplitude — 10M events/month free
Plausible — 30-day free trial
Umami — Free and open source
Hotjar — Free Basic plan
Segment — 1K monthly tracked users free
📋 Project Management
Notion — Free Personal plan
Linear — Free for small teams
Jira — Free for up to 10 users
Trello — Free forever plan
Airtable — Free Starter plan
⚙️ Automation
Zapier — 100 tasks/month free
Make (formerly Integromat) — 1,000 operations/month free
n8n — Free when self-hosted
📈 Monitoring & Logging
Sentry — 5,000 errors/month free
LogRocket — 1,000 sessions/month free
📅 Scheduling & Meetings
Calendly — Free Basic plan
Cal.com — Free and open source
Zoom — Free plan (40-minute limit on group meetings)
Loom — Up to 25 videos free
🔍 Search
Algolia — 10K records and limited operations free
Typesense — Free when self-hosted
🖼️ Media & Storage
Cloudinary — 25 monthly credits free
ImageKit — 20GB bandwidth free
🚀 Startup Programs
Y Combinator Startup School — Free curriculum + potential Stripe credits
GitHub Student Developer Pack — $200K+ in perks for students
Stripe Atlas — Delaware incorporation with partner credits